Example sentences of "the [n mass] and [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack fired into the air and the dog left off chasing the sheep and ran towards the wood . |
| 2 | However what appeared to be a Bofors gun mounted on the fort on the breakwater , manned by three men , observed the aircraft and fired at it but did not obtain sufficient depression . |
| 3 | Sergeant Potter called at the Gasworks and asked for Miss Deirdre McTavish . |
| 4 | It is also the basis of the eye developed by the fish and bequeathed by them to all land-living vertebrates . |
| 5 | The simultaneous emergence of popular nationalist sentiment meant that concessions extracted from one Chinese government could be flouted by the people and revoked by another regime . |
| 6 | In a stern warning to national editors on Nov. 29 , Jiang Zemin , said that the party must strengthen its leadership over the media and warned against remnants of bourgeois liberalization . |
| 7 | A sensible recruitment and selection policy that is familiar to the staff and adhered to be the company — ie the authors of the policy — will do much to keep staff morale high . |
| 8 | Fat grey pigeons and speckled thrushes bent the branches of the elderberries in the autumn , pecked at the fruit and flapped into the sky when frightened by my cat . |
| 9 | The friar walked back up to the Poultry and knocked on the coroner 's door . |